UFC on FOX 5: Matt Brown vs. Mike Swick full fight video highlights

One of the welterweight division’s hottest fighters kept on rolling Saturday night.

Matt Brown ran his win streak to four fights and wrapped up a perfect 2012 by absolutely starching Mike Swick to open up the main card of UFC on FOX 5.

After a back-and-forth first round fought mostly on the ground, Brown (16-11 MMA, 6-5 UFC) landed a two-punch combination to put away Swick (15-5 MMA, 10-4 UFC) at the 2:31 mark of the second.

Full fight video highlights are now available for the welterweight bout.

UFC on FOX 5 took place at KeyArena in Seattle. The main card aired on FOX following prelims on FX and Facebook.

Brown’s four-fight win streak includes three knockouts. He stopped Chris Cope in February, upset Stephen Thompson in April, stopped Luis Ramos in June and capped off his massive year with the big KO of Swick on Saturday. Brown has now won five of his past six. Just two years ago, he was mired in a three-fight skid.

Swick was looking for a second straight win on FOX after knocking out DaMarques Johnson in August, which was his first fight in 30 months.

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